witling
Example Sentences
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When active Pickle Smithfield stage ascends, 200 The three days' wonder of his laughing friends, Each, or as judgment or as fancy guides, The lively witling praises or derides.
From Poetical Works by Churchill, Charles
The following will exemplify the active meaning of this verb: Sir Strut, for so the witling throng Oft called him when at school, And hitch'd him up in many a song To sport and ridicule.
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by Jennings, James
Her age was the favorite theme of the callow witling, her cause a never-failing subject for reproach and abuse.
From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted
A beau and witling perished in the throng, One died in metaphor, and one in song.
From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)
But the chopping-boss, his humorous gaze on the witling, remarked: “I reckon I’ll have to rule that song out, after this, ‘Hitchbiddy.’”
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
